Living and working near some of the busiest roads in Essex I get to see some amazing things being transported in many creative ways, but some of those ways are just not legal and some are just plain insane.
In January I was driving alone the A13 in the slow lane, I was overtaken by a Ford Focus that had a kingsize mattress strapped to the roof. The car was going so fast that half of the mattress was vertical, so the part that was strapped to the roof was flat, the part that wasn’t was upright! At any point it could have come loose and cause an accident on the road.
Fridges are popular being close to the Lakeside retail parks and I have lost count of the ones I have seen put into boots of small cars and then the hatch strapped over the back of them. Sometimes though, drivers don’t bother with the strapping part. One didn’t and shattered the back windscreen, I didn’t see if the fridge was damaged.
My fave has to be the sofa being delivered, someone had hired a van for the day as they knew it would be too big for the car that they had. They were loaded at the shop, I watched the driver tip the guys that helped him lift the sofa on to the van, and then I watched him walk to the front, get in a drive off with the back open. The driver hadn’t tied the sofa to the walls, took a corner too fast and the sofa was half on a roundabout and half in the road. Luckily no one hit it.
Delivering items of furniture yourself as a way to save money can dangerous at times, so if you do it – be careful.
And if you need a furniture courier, call us.
Kevin
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